Museum and Heritage Studies Products

Edited by Catherine Palmer, Jacqueline Tivers

What does ‘heritage’ mean in the twenty-first century? Traditional ideas of heritage involve places where objects, landscapes, people and ideas are venerated and reproduced over time as an inheritance for future generations. To speak of heritage is to speak of a relationship between the past, the…

Hardback – 2018-07-30
Routledge
Current Developments in the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism

By Katherine Biber

This book investigates what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of legal proceedings. During the criminal trial, evidentiary material is tightly regulated; it is formally regarded as part of the court record, and subject to the rules of evidence and criminal procedure. However, these…

Hardback – 2018-07-26
Routledge

By Alison Barnes

Cultural geography and the social sciences have seen a rise in the use of creative methods with which to understand and represent everyday life and place. Conversely, many artists are producing work that centres on ideas of place and space and utilising empirical research methods that have a…

Hardback – 2018-07-26
Routledge
Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity

By Denise Maior-Barron

Marie Antoinette at Petit Trianon challenges common perceptions of the last Queen of France, appraising the role she played in relation to the events of French Revolution through an original analysis of contemporary heritage practices and visitor perceptions at her former home, the Petit…

Hardback – 2018-07-26
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Heritage

Edited by Margaret R. Laster, Chelsea Bruner

Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New York’s built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted…

Hardback – 2018-07-24
Routledge
Routledge Research in Art History

By Charlotte Gould

The Artangel Trust has been credited with providing artists with all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream projects. An independent art commissioning agency based in London, it has operated since 1985 and is responsible for producing some of the most striking ephemeral and…

Hardback – 2018-07-12
Routledge
British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700

By Evija Volfa Vestergaard

Trauma, Cultural Complexes, and Transformation: Folk Narratives and Present Realities contributes to our understanding of how culturally traumatic events affect present day realities, and suggests the potential for healing by combining theories on psychological trauma, cultural complexes, and…

Hardback – 2018-07-09
Routledge

Edited by Irina D. Costache, Clare Kunny

Collaboration and interdisciplinary practice in the museum are on the rise. Academics, Artists, and Museums examines twenty-first century partnerships between the museum and higher education sectors, with a focus on art museums and exhibits. The edited volume offers detailed analysis of how…

Hardback – 2018-07-09
Routledge
Routledge Research in Museum Studies

By Elee Kirk, Will Buckingham

Children are one of the major audiences for museums, but their visits are often seen solely from the point of view of museum learning. In Snapshots of Museum Experience, Will Buckingham draws upon Elee Kirk’s research amongst child visitors to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, to…

Hardback – 2018-06-21
Routledge
Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Edited by Ross Parry, Ruth Page, Alex Moseley

Museum Thresholds is a progressive, interdisciplinary volume and the first to explore the importance and potential of entrance spaces for visitor experience. Bringing together an international collection of writers from different disciplines, the chapters in this volume offer different theoretical…

Hardback – 2018-05-18
Routledge
Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Edited by Malcolm Quinn, Dave Beech, Michael Lehnert, Carol Tulloch, Stephen Wilson

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and art educators, and art, design and cultural…

Hardback – 2018-05-10
Routledge
CRESC

By Annet Dekker

Collecting and Conserving Net Art explores the qualities and characteristics of net art and its influence on conservation practices. By addressing and answering some of the challenges facing net art and providing an exploration of its intersection with conservation, the book casts a new light on…

Hardback – 2018-04-30
Routledge